Story · StartupBuilder

Properties

Property	Type	Required	Description
`icp`	ICP	required	The ICP it speaks to: one Story per ICP.
`hero`	`text`	required	Who the customer is and what they want.
`problem`	Problem	required	The Problem: external, internal, and the villain behind it.
`guide`	`text`		The Startup’s empathy and authority, the authority read from Metrics and Evidence.
`plan`	`text`		Three steps, each naming a declared Event.
`success`	`text`		What the customer gains.
`failure`	`text`		What the customer risks without it.
`oneLiner`	`string`		The Story in one sentence.
`direct`	Offer		The direct call to action: an Offer that makes a Customer.
`transitional`	Funnel		The transitional call to action: a Funnel opt-in that makes a Lead.
`from`	`string`	required	Lineage: the slot it compiles from, as `Hypothesis#<slot>@v<version>`.
`stance`	`string`		The positioning the Positioning tournament chose, graded Behavior; every compiled asset recompiles when it changes.
`category`	`string`		The market category name the Story claims, as answer engines repeat it.

Object

JSON

{
  "$id": "https://api.sb/ledgerlark.com/stories/story_1",
  "$type": "Story",
  "icp": "icp_1",
  "hero": "Example hero",
  "problem": "problem_1",
  "guide": "Example guide",
  "plan": "Example plan",
  "success": "Example success",
  "failure": "Example failure",
  "oneLiner": "Example one liner",
  "direct": "offer_1",
  "transitional": "funnel_1",
  "from": "Hypothesis#approach@v1",
  "stance": "headToHead",
  "category": "Example category"
}

Relationships

A Story is compiled from one Hypothesis: the Founding Hypothesis whose slots the Story compiles from; a pivot recompiles it. compiledFrom, inverse stories.
A Story quotes many Interviews: the Interviews whose words the Story reuses. quotes, inverse quotedIn.

Verbs

createCreates a Story.
POST /{namespace}/storiesdoStory.created
getReturns one Story by id.
GET /{namespace}/stories/{id}readNo Event
listReturns Stories, newest first, one page at a time.
GET /{namespace}/storiesreadNo Event
updateChanges the given properties of a Story.
PATCH /{namespace}/stories/{id}doStory.updated
deleteDeletes a Story; its history is kept.
DELETE /{namespace}/stories/{id}doStory.deleted

Permissions

Which Access level may call each Verb. One-way Verbs wait their delay window.

Operation	`owner`	`admin`	`member`	`viewer`
`Story.create`	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
`Story.get`	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
`Story.list`	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
`Story.update`	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
`Story.delete`	Yes	Yes	Yes	No

Call it

Text

Add a story to PatentPad with an ICP and a problem.

Example

A patent-drafting Startup compiles one Story for solo inventors. The hero wants a filed patent, the villain is a $15,000 attorney bill, and the call to action is a $499 draft Offer.

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